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Spain Travel Podcast with Mateo Herrera

Mateo Herrera

Travelling in Spain means moving between a dry, hot plateau and a greener coast, between dense city life and emptied inland villages. This podcast follows a single narrator settling in Spain for years at a time, learning each place by living in it rather than passing through. It treats travel as ordinary knowledge, built from repeated visits and local daily rhythms.

The route includes Madrid and the Pyrenees, but it also reaches Galicia's Atlantic estuaries, the Ebro valley, and Extremadura's slow towns. Each place is chosen because it connects to the next, so the movement between them makes geographical sense. The show does not pretend to cover all of Spain; it follows one person's inhabited route through its regions.

The episodes move with the seasons, returning to the same streets and paths as they change. Summer heat stays in the interior while winter damp gathers along the coasts, and a town seen in December is not the same town in June. Knowing a place properly takes that repetition and time.

Mateo Herrera lives in Spain and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Mateo is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement.

A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers.

Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next.

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Episodes6

  • Yesterday · 8 min

    Last Day in Barcelona, Eclipse Ahead

    Mateo spends his final full day in Barcelona before heading to the Pyrenees, reflecting on the August rhythm, sharing practical costs, and preparing for the solar eclipse. A bittersweet farewell to the city and a look forward to the mountains.

  • Wednesday · 10 min

    NIE Paperwork, August Heat, and Home Cooking

    On day five in Barcelona, Mateo navigates the city's August rhythm—empty streets, festival crowds, and metro closures—while tackling NIE paperwork, banking, and the search for a flat. He finds a moment of calm in a local market and reflects on the eclips…

  • Tuesday · 9 min

    Eclipse Watchers and the August Exodus

    Mateo dives into the August exodus, dodges festival crowds, and hunts for eclipse glasses ahead of the 12 August solar eclipse. He also tackles the practicalities of opening a bank account and the city's transit disruptions, all while soaking up the quie…

  • Monday · 9 min

    August in the Old City, Sun and Shadows

    Mateo escapes the Circuit crowds for the Gothic Quarter's quieter corners, watches the city's resident rhythm, and savours a long sobremesa. He also cracks a chunk of the NIE puzzle and mulls the coming eclipse.

  • Sunday · 8 min

    Paper Trails and August Ghosts in El Born

    On day two in Barcelona, Mateo braves the heat to chase down his NIE paperwork, discovers the August exodus that empties the city of locals, and finds a quiet kind of magic in El Born's medieval lanes. The solar eclipse on the 12th creeps into the conver…

  • Saturday · 10 min

    Landing in Barcelona, August Heat and Paperwork

    Mateo Herrera lands in Barcelona on the first of August, 2026. New episodes start with the NIE residency paperwork, a first walk through the Barceloneta and the old city, the empty streets of August, and the cost of getting started in Catalonia.